Historic Morman Places in Salt Lake City, Utah

Eric and I drove into Salt Lake City to visit Temple Square, the Morman walled-in historical area in downtown Salt Lake City.

 

We started at the Visitor Center.

 A model of Jerusalem in 33 AD

  A Giant Statue of Jesus surrounded

 by the solar system

Then went to the Assembly Hall.  Our guides were missionaries from Germany and the Philippines.  Assembly Hall is used for public worship.  The granite exterior came from blocks salvaged from building the Morman Temple.

Assembly Hall

 The interior of Assembly Hall

The Salt Lake City Temple is not open to the public.  Private, spiritual rituals occur there... Sealing of marriages so that the husband and wife are together in the afterlife.  The dead of other religions are baptized into the Morman faith so that they may be joined with Morman  family members in death. 

Brigham Young's Beehive House tour guides were missionaries from Brazil and Chile.  
Brigham Young was the leader of the Morman Church, Governor of Utah and oversaw Indian Affairs in the  Utah Territory.  He had seven clerks working in one room to keep records on his various activities.  Young had a formal office where he met with dignitaries and locals.

Beehive House

Eric chats with our guides

The guides spoke specifically of Brigham Young's wife and children.  I mentioned that Young had children with 16 wives.  I didn't mention the total of 55 women to which we were wed.  The tour guide immediately informed the group that God spoke to the Prophet and the practice of polygamy was stopped.